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...during football workouts at Chicago's Harrison High School. Because he has two children in college, and needs more than his $7,000 yearly salary as football coach and director of physical education to keep them there, Dougherty also takes his turn three nights a week as a taxicab driver. Moonlighting earns him about $2,000 a year, but there are inevitable brushes with Chicago's night life; knife-point holdups in 1956 and 1957 lost him $40, one watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Moonlight Ride | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...checks, that the choice of courier was improbable-Assad Ibrahim was reportedly only a simple Syrian farmer until his daughter caught the eye of one of Saud's roving agents and was installed as a favorite in the royal harem (Ibrahim's brother drives a taxicab in Damascus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.A.R.: Father Ibrahim's Plot | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Radcliffe students who require emergency medical treatment at night, on weekends, and holidays are now being taken to Stillman Infirmary by taxicab. It has also been learned that the fourth floor of the infirmary will be used as a full-time, ten-bed Radcliffe ward beginning in the fall...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Stillman Will Admit Patients From 'Cliffe | 2/20/1958 | See Source »

VOLTAIRE once remarked: "If -you wish to converse with me, define your terms." Last week the great debate around the U.S. was over the health of the nation's economy-not only among financial experts, but among factory hands, taxicab drivers, secretaries and housewives (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Everyone worried that the U.S. might be on the verge of or actually in a "recession"; yet there was no clear idea of just what a recession involves, or what it means in terms of the postwar economy. For a reading on where the U.S. stood last week, and what the Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...York City locals, "knowing these locals to be racket-controlled and devoid of membership." He secretly joined with Johnny Dio, the notorious racketeer, in conspiring to get derogatory information to be used against New York Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey, tried to get Dio a Teamster charter for his taxicab local, even though the legitimate Teamster organization under Hickey was trying to organize the cab drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: An Inconvenient Forgettery | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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